spargo
See also: Spargo
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *(s)pregʰ- (“to scatter, to jerk”), see also spurcus, Old Irish arg (“a drop”), Lithuanian sprogti (“a bud, a shoot”), Northern Sami sprygg (“active, brisk”), Old Norse freknur (“speckles”) (whence English freckle), Avestan 𐬟𐬭𐬀-𐬯𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬈𐬔𐬀 (fra-sparega, “twig, branch, something jerked off of a tree”), Sanskrit पर्जन्य (parjanya, “rain god, rain”). See also spernō and Ancient Greek σπείρω (speírō).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈspar.ɡoː/
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- spargo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- spargo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- spargo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- spargo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to spread a rumour: rumorem spargere
- to sow: serere; semen spargere
- to spread a rumour: rumorem spargere
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